Non-refillable bottle.



No. 680,220. Patented Aug. |3,l90l. W. S. BOWNESS A N-ON-REFILLABLEBOTTLE;

(Application filed Jan. 19. 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

WALTER SCOTT BOWNESS, OF MONOTON, CANADA.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 680,220, dated August13, 1901. Application filed January 19, 1901. Serial No. 43, 20. (Nomodel.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER Soorr Bow- NEss, a subject of the Queen ofGreat Britain, residing at Moncton, in the county of Westmoreland, inthe Province of New Brunswick, Canada, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to improvements in non-refillable bottles; and theobject of the invention is to design a simple device to be inserted inthe neck of a bottle or the like whereby it will be impossible for anyone to refill the bottle after emptying a portion or all its contents;and it consists, essentially, of a stopper or plug covering andprotecting a ball-valve seated on an annular shoulder at the base of theneck and an inwardly-project ing knob intermediate of the height of theneck and being part thereof, designed to fit in a groove in the plug andbe irremovably fixed therein, with a cement filling let in through aslot in the upper face of the stopper and suitable indirect passagesthrough the stopper, and an obstructing ledge or rim im mediately aboveits outwardly-flaring downward projections, the various parts beingconstructed in detail, as hereinafter more particularly described.

Figure l is a sectional perspective view of my device as applied to abottle. Fig. 2 is a detail of the stopper from the bottom. Fig; 3 is adetail of the stopper from the top.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

A is the neck of the bottle, which has an inwardly-projecting knob aintermediate of its height and an annular shoulder .or valve seat a atthe base of the neck.

B is a ball-valve, preferably of glass, which is designed to rest on theshoulder a and is slightly ground, as is also the inner wall of theshoulder a.

O is the plug, which has outwardly-flaring legs 0, leaving the freepassages c.

D is a rim extending around the plug immediately above the legs 0 andprovided with the passages cl, these passages being out of line with thepassages o.

The upper portion E of the plug is pronnlar shoulder a.

vided with the passages e and e, which are diametrically in line withthe passages ci and out of line with the passages d.

Above the rim D the groove F encircles the plug, and immediately abovethe groove F is a circumferential groove G, which is cut out of theupper portion of the plug on one side only, between the passages e ande, entering the latter at g and at its other end closing abruptly at gbefore it reaches the passage e. The slot H leads down from the upperface of the plug into the groove G at a point intermediate of the lengthof the said groove G. Having now described the parts involved in myinvention, I shall more fully explain the bottle; but in order toprevent the ball B from being tampered with I insert the plug 0, and inorder to do this and at the same time pass the projection a it isnecessary to first allow the plug to drop gently, with one of thepassages c in line with the projection a. The further progress downwardof the plug is then obstructed by the rim D coming in contact with theprojection a, so that a slight turn is necessary in order to bring oneof the passages d in line with the said projection. The projection a isnow resting in the annular groove F, and by a turn, so as to bring theprojection in line with the passage e, the legs 0 of the plug areallowed to rest on the an- The projection a is now inthe passage e andis directly opposite the open end 9 of the groove G, and by turning thestopper the projection enters the said groove G, and continuing to turnit passes the slot H to the closed end g,wherefrom the stopper is inposition. A suitable glass cement is now dropped through the slot H intothe groove G and against the projection a, thus firmly locking the plugin positiona'nd preventing all chance of the said plug being removedwithout breaking the neck of the hottle. The plug 0 being now inposition .over the ball B, the liquid can be readily poured from thebottle, as when the bottle is upturned the ball B rolls away from theannular shoulder a and allows the liquid to flow through the passages c,d, and e or e, thereby obtaining a constant and steady flow from thebottle when desired, and on replacing the bottle in an upright positionthe ball B settles back on its seat and absolutely prevents any liquidfrom entering the body portion of the bottle. It is. impossible totamper'with' the ball, as the passages for the outflow of the liquidareso arranged as to prevent a wire or instrument of any kind reachingthe ball. It will now be seen that I have pro vided a sure and safemeans of preventing the refilling of a bottle after it has been emptiedor partially emptied. The growth of the fraudulent practices demandssome protection for the manufacturers for the prevention of-substitutingone liquid for another in a bot- Lle or the like, and as my invention issuch that all the parts can be constructed of glass or the same materialas the'bottle or jar the trouble frequently experienced in such devicesfrom the corrosion incident 'to the in troduction of rubber, metal, orother foreign mediate of its" height, and the annular shoulder or valveseat atthe base thereof, and the ball-valv'e, of a stopper or plughaving downwardly=extending projections from its body portion, designedto rest on the annular vshoulder to each side'of the ball-valve, andforming passage-ways diametrically in line with passage-ways in the bodyportion, an intervening rim or ledge on the stopper between the bodyandlower'projections, having passage-ways out of line with the aforesaidpassage-ways, the encircling groove F and the recess leading into thegroove G, and suitable cement'filling to lock the knob a, into theclosed end of the groove G, as and for the purpose specified.

Signed at Moncton this 16th day of January, 1901.

WALTER SCOTT BOWNESS, Witnesses:

G. W. DANIEL,

FRANCIS J.-SWEENEY.

